{"id":37,"date":"2014-09-07T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2014-09-07T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T19:30:00","slug":"open-letter-to-the-disenchanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to the Disenchanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">A great <a href=\"http:\/\/talesfromshangri-la.blogspot.com\/2014\/09\/pleading-case-for-mundane.html?m=1\">post<\/a> by a perceptive mom and recovering teenager (who isn&#8217;t?) at <a href=\"http:\/\/talesfromshangri-la.blogspot.com\/?m=1\">Tales from Shangri-La.<\/a> It&#8217;s really an open letter to thoughtful high school students in suburbia. If only I had such vision in my wandering years.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">It opens,<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><i>Dear Friend,<br \/> <\/i><i><br \/><\/i><i>You are caught up in a hundred little deaths of your soul these days. You are forced to sit through classes which are beneath you.<br \/> <\/i><i><br \/><\/i><i>You know more about these books, these histories; you understand better than your peers. You are better read than some of your teachers. This is really true, at least in an academic sense.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><i> <\/i><i>In other classes you are made to study material you know you will never use. Odds are good you won&#8217;t need that quadratic formula in graduate school or in cooking your dinner.<\/i>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><i> <\/i><i>And this is an indignity. You, O Suburban Minion, must abide the endless chores of polite conversation, acrid lunchroom shufflings, leading questions, obvious observations, and endless chores.<br \/> <\/i><i><br \/><\/i><i>You have better taste. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The open letter moves from here to a new vision of adolescent life.&nbsp; Its worth the time so read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/talesfromshangri-la.blogspot.com\/2014\/09\/pleading-case-for-mundane.html?m=1\">here.<\/a><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A great post by a perceptive mom and recovering teenager (who isn&#8217;t?) at Tales from Shangri-La. It&#8217;s really an open letter to thoughtful \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=37\"> [...]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ESBE-B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}